Our day started at 7am this morning as we were trying to get tickets to go up the Petronas Towers. It is about a 20 minute walk from the hostel but one of the guys that works here was on his way to his 2nd job and gave us a ride down there. We arrived at 7.40am to find a queue of at least a hundred people already,they only issue 1500 tickets a day and its on a first come first served basis. The whole experience is tightly controlled and we were issued a ticket f...

Our day started at 7am this morning as we were going to try and get tickets to go up the Petronas Towers. It is about a 20 minute walk from our hostel but one of the guys that works here was on his way to his second job and gave us a lift down. We arrived at 7.40am and the queue was already a hundred people long, they only issue 1500 tickets a day on a first come first served basis. At 8.30 they started to hand out tickets and we were allocated the 9.15 slot. Th...

Well Guys Today has been a fun and games day from start to finish. We set off for the Thai Embassy to sort out our visa for Thailand and arrived nice and early to find a massive queue already. It was boiling hot and very confusing but it turns out that we don't need a visa as we can enter 3 times for 30 days at a time as British Citiizens. From here we took the Monorail round to Puduraya Station and booked our Cameron Highlands tickets for Wednesday. We are lo...

Hi Guys We have been all spiritual today and took a trip to the Batu Caves. After a bit of a run around we eventually found where to catch the bus and it was a bouncy rickety 30 minute journey to the caves 13km out of the city. The Batu Caves are a holy shrine for Hindus and every January or early February about 1 million people congregate here during Thaipusam to engage in masochistic feats which include sticking big hooks and spikes through their skin and att...

Hello from Kuala Lumpur or KL as it is known by just about everybody round here. Our last 2 days have been pretty hectic so let me run through them with you and let you know what we have been up to. Yesterday we left Malacca on the bus and it was a 2 hour journey into KL this cost us a whopping 1 pound 20p each!!!! We were dropped at the PuduRaya Bus Terminal and there were people everywhere offering taxi rides and bumping into each other it was pretty manic an...